[mythtv-users] MythTV vs. Windows Media Center

Reynolds, Brian Brian.Reynolds at fiserv.com
Mon Feb 14 03:37:10 UTC 2011


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
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> On Behalf Of jedi
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 10:28 PM
> To: Discussion about MythTV
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV vs. Windows Media Center
> 
<SNIP> 
>      What MCE "stores things as" is probably entirely irrelevant
except for
> making things unecessarily hard to use in other programs. Unless MCE
is
> transcoding things (which is bloody unlikely given the processing
> requirements),
> then it's just storing the raw streams from whatever tuner it's
recording
> from.
> 

I based my 300 hours on experience from people who are actually using
Win MCE with HD tuners.

You didn't answer my main question.  How many hours of HD recording can
you get in Myth with 2TB of storage space?  Let's assume you're using
H.264.

Brian


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